TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1898, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Further heavy rainfall. Great typhoon' at Port Arthur, China. benous landslips in the Thames district Rowdy scene in the N.S.W. Parliament.

The Swaziland trouble is becoming more serious.

_ The Vancouver'mail has arrived at Welington, ;

Nearly 2$ inches of rain fell in Auckland this week. -• ■

Pobatau, the first Maori King, died this day 1860. . °

Thames county water-race damaged by the floods. o j

American troops landed in Cuba without having- to fight. Mission yacht Southern Cross arrived :rom Melanesia. • *

A sailing club has been formed in the Farnell district. ' #

Admiral Caraara's fleet has heen seen in the Mediterranean.

This week's gale was felt in various parts of the South Island.

K.M.s. Aorangi due at Wellington today from Vancouver.

Sir M. Hicks-Beach says foreign affairs are eminently peaceful. Cerveras fleet co'uped up at Santiago is disabled and without coal.

evangelistic services at the OperlU. House on Sunday evening. '...'' '*:'7J4 Chinese torpedo destroyer has been*&# wrecked, with great loss of life. '^ff"&« Battle in Cuba between Americans; and Spanish is said to be proceeding. Batteries at the Thames'"stopped ■on account of damage to water-race. A N.S.W. legislator has been expelled • from the House for saying "damn" too often.

Henare Tomoana, a Hawke's Bay Maori chief, has been appointed to the Legislative Council,

Yesterday 1,815,800 gallons of water were pumped into Auckland City from the Western Springs. The^ Southern Cress has completed a ten weeks' cruise, amongst the islands of the Western Pacific.

Miss Powell, secretary of the W.C.T.U., will speak at the Helping Hand Mission on Sunday evening.. New Zealand .Parliament has passed resolutions of regret in connection • with Gladstone's death.

Second and concluding round of Rugby football cup matches was commenced this afternoon at Epsom.

One man was killed and eight injured on »tlie United States battleship Texas in the Santiago engagement. The level of the water in the Western Springs ponds has risen upwards of a foot through this week's rain. Thes.s. Rotomahana is overdue at Wellington from Lyttelton, ancl steamers have been sent to search for her.

The Tarawera did not leave Dunedin for Melbourne last night, owing to the dirty appearance of the weather.

Fourteen passengers arrived here from Norfolk Island by the Mclanesian Mission yacht Southern Gross to-day. The Rev. C. W. Browning arrived here from Norfolk Island by tlie Melanesian Mission schooner this morning. The Native Land Court dealing with blocks of land in the King Country is expected to sit at Te Kuiti next month.

The Waitekaun. aiid other mines in the Ohinemuri district have suffered considerable damage through' the iloods. Mr John Arnaboldi, of Newiiiarkefc, has discovered a means of firing dynamite safely from a gun by means of gunpowder. Three miners at Waioujo, Thames, had a very narrow escape from being killed on Thursday night by a. large tree falling across their whare. The big pump.at the TJiames stopped work yesterday on account of the floods, singular as it may'seem, interfering with the water supply. , A mast of a vessel, most likely that of the wrecked barquentine Waitemata, is reported by the ketch Fannia to be floating about near Tiritiri. •

The Bay of Islands County Council insists on the Maoris at Kaik'ohe and elsewhere in the County paying the dog-tax and vehicle taxes in full.

Steady rain has fallen all over Canterbury and Otago during the last two days, and has been ©f great benefit to farmers in the northern districts. • • ■'

A local Mrs Malaprop, Avhen questioned the other day by a policeman about the condition of one of her "children, replied that the child was '' scrofulously clean !"

Te Aroha being now formed into a borough is entitled to a Mayor. Messrs Thos. Gavin and Jas. Mills have been nominated for the ollice of Mayor. The election will take place on July 15th.

Wonderful value in dresses, 6yds for 1 lHd, 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s lid, 4s lid, and upwards ; also braided robes reduced to 93 lid, at Smith and Caughey's great stocktaking fair.—Advt. ■